Lead Infrastructure Engineer

Scottish Government Recruitment • Full-time • City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom • 2d ago

Job description

Are you ready to lead cloud transformation at scale in a team as passionate about public service and technical excellence as you are? Join us as a Lead Cloud Engineer and drive innovation, resilience and operational excellence across our AWS estate.

As Lead Cloud Engineer within the Agriculture and Rural Economy (ARE) Digital and Data Division, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the cloud engineering capability that underpins critical digital services across the Scottish Government. Our mission is to provide the technical expertise and capacity needed to deliver secure, reliable and future-ready digital solutions that support sustainable economic growth in agriculture, the food industry and rural communities.

You will lead the development and implementation of cloud strategy, architecture and engineering standards across our AWS estate, working closely with Product, Platform, Software Engineering, Data, Site Reliability Engineering and Cyber Security teams. Your primary objective will be to ensure our cloud platforms are robust, scalable and secure, enabling the successful delivery of key digital outcomes while driving continuous improvement, innovation and best practice across the organisation.

Responsibilities

Coding and implementing scalable, secure and supported cloud infrastructure.
Presenting recommendations for technologies or system improvements to support project goals, based on IT knowledge and analysis of business and system needs.
Evaluating the success of integrated solutions, identifying best practices and lessons learned.
Ensuring high availability and performance of critical services.
Building internal cloud capability and mentoring engineers.
Supporting innovation and continuous improvement in service delivery.
Contributing to the department’s overall technical strategy and roadmap, while owning the technical roadmap for services within your defined domain.

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